Byte-Sized: Tasty Tech From Around The Web [Round-up]

The second round of my (hopefully) daily round-up of the tastiest tech stories from Philly and beyond.

Commence the tech!

I’m still getting the hang of this and, at least for a little while, you’re probably going to see a lot of repetition as far as which sites I’m culling these tidbits from.

Also, I hope you like the image — I threw it together this morning from Creative Commons and public domain photos, using a site called SplashUp. It’s the most creative thing I’ve done in months, and that makes me really sad. But enough whining, didn’t I already commence the tech?

Local Bytes

• Philly.com reports that local venture capital firm TL Ventures, which used its $1 billion to buy little tech companies all over the country in the late 1990s, is attempting to recapture $3 million in fees paid to some of its partners as the fund faces dissolution. (Link)
• UPenn’s Wharton Business School has a great read about the Comcast-NBC Universal deal. It’s actually a couple days old, but a great read. (Link)

Everything Else

• CNET’s gadget blog Fully Equipped rounds up 20 of the past decade’s most innovative products in an excellent gallery. (Link)
• Ars Technica talks about the first couple of levels of Dante’s Inferno, the new video game from Visceral Games based on the famous epic poem by Dante Alighieri. (Link)
• Engadget reports on Virgin Galactic’s spaceship unveiling. You, too, can go to space for a measly $200,000! (Link)
• Gearlog posts about one designer’s dream handset, the xPhone, which sports a 48 megapixel camera that accepts add-on lenses, direct-print functionality, a CD-ROM drive, a cassette player, a nuclear battery, and, well, you get the point. (Link)
• Geek.com tells tales of the upcoming Android OS updates for Verizon’s Motorola Droid and HTC Droid Eris users. (Link)
• VentureBeat’s blog DigitalBeat reported on the “collapsed man” caught by Google Maps‘ Street View cameras. Google has since removed the image. (Link)

[Via http://therottenword.com]

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